Reviews

Spiral Bound, by Dessa

kjboldon's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

3.5

This bite-sized snack is a treat, but perhaps only for Dessa completists--not sure how it would play outside the Dessa-verse. Some short stories, essays, poetry. Like cool extra liner notes to her earlier material.

stranger_sights's review

4.0

While reading her words was less of a transcendent experience than hearing them from her, this is still a wonderful book of thoughts and stories from a very impressive writer.

You can read my full review at: https://mediadrome.wordpress.com/2020/11/02/spiral-bound-by-dessa/

xhu's review

reflective medium-paced

3.75

I'd resisted the staircase method in the past, because it seemed so New Agey. People who put themselves to sleep by envisioning their descent down a mental staircase are people who confer great agency to crystals.

People die -- yes, yes, we know that. But Max and I have come to appreciate that some people die first. I'm older. But then girls live longer. Anyone's guess really.

There is some mercy, after all, in our design:
a soft amnesia for the frequently mistreated,
an adrenal surge for the cornered and outnumbered,
a flash of light for the very nearly dead.

The impromptu travellers' libraries that emerge on backpacker routes have a few titles, but they appear in dozens of translations.

amberfrost's review

lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

bibliocyclist's review

3.0

People who put themselves to sleep by envisioning their descent down a mental staircase are people who confer great agency to crystals.

There is some mercy after all in our design:
a soft amnesia for the frequently mistreated,
an adrenal surge for the cornered and outnumbered,
a flash of light for the very nearly dead.